I highly recommend Teach Yourself Electronics by Malcolm Plant. I have a Master's degree in electrical engineering and I started with hobby electronics before I learned to ride a bike, and this book is sitting on my desk as I type.;)
Correct: decades . Therefore it should take decades for nature to fix itself. However, it hasn't taken as much time.
Nonsense. That's like saying a slow tire leak took 3 days to make your tire flat, therefore it should take 3 days for you to fill the tire back up.
This is nothing less than your ilk thinking man is just soooooo powerful and great and wise (scientist have named us Homo Sapien Sapien - the Wise Wise Man afterall). Where we are not.
Sounds like a creationist fnord. Look, we humans have recently fucked a lot of shit up. Volcanoes and their natural buddies you try to blame for stuff have been around forever, but our current environmental problems haven't. Sorry, we can't explain away climate change, mass extinction, ozone depletion and accelerated erosion. It's fact. No one who knows anything about it is currently arguing that. We are the current critical cause. Get over it, and start taking responsibility.
And while you're at it you should educate yourself with the other posts to this story.
Slashdot posts are about 2 rungs above books about Wiccanism on the ladder of educational reading... I'll pass.
Well, since it's just not logical, by your rock-solid rational reasoning obviously firmly based in fact, you must be right.
Not.
It's really simple. Ozone is a gas. Three oxygen molecules. CFCs released into the atmosphere last a very long time due to low reactivity, and work their way up to around the ozone layer. Unfortunately, when they get up there, ultraviolet radiation breaks them down and releases chlorine as a free radical among the ozone molecules in the atomosphere. Chlorine acts as a chemical catalyst in several reactions which take ozone as input and do not output any ozone. Then, the chlorine is free to move on to catalyze the next reaction. This can continue for thousands of ozone molecules. Clearly not all ozone depletion is caused by CFCs, but I don't think there's been any significant debate in a long time that CFCs majorly upset the balance.
As for why the 'hole' is over Antarctica and not Michigan, think about what you're saying. This is a process that has been happening for decades. The atmosphere moves. Don't believe me? Go outside on a windy day. Also, ozone is produced by stratospheric UV radiation, so the lowest concentrations are produced at the poles. The reason the hole is over Antarctica is due to a combination of the low production concentration at the poles and prevailing wind patterns in the stratosphere.
Any questions? Does this seem logical to you now?
You know, you'd think people would err on the side of caution when they don't know shit and the fate of most of Earth's life hangs in the balance.
Each bit can be on or off meaning that for the amount of memory my browser occupies now, there are 2^398163968 different possible states for any similar sized application running.
That's not true at all. First of all, a lot of that memory is the program itself, which isn't going to change, and some of it is probably your OS counting shared library code, which also isn't going to change. Even then, you can't take the variable segments of memory and assume that the application could by its own operation potentially set each bit of memory in any combination of ones and zeroes. There are a lot of memory structures that you can safely say are going to look like such-and-such, greatly reducing your estimate of the number of possible states.
Anyway, testing software doesn't mean taking every possible state into account. That would be ridiculous. Certain things just shouldn't affect one another, so your ones and zeroes in memory situation would basically be a whole whack of "don't-care conditions" (as in truth tables and such) and a relative few significant bits whose values are largely co-dependent. Good programming should compartmentalize the program so that modules affect each other with minimal interaction and thus you really only have to do exhaustive state tests on very small modules.
Agreed. People in businesses seem to think of e-mail as somewhere between an informal phone call and a Post-It note in terms of importance, which is really the only reason they have these problems.
The conclusions shown in the summary are given as causes of the misunderstandings (anecodotal and experimental) in TFA. I disagree somewhat. Though it is in the main logical to conclude that the problem lies in e-mail not properly conveying all the nuances of human verbal communication, I think the problem is more with the people than inherent limitations in the medium -- in other words, we have to mature into e-mail, it doesn't need to expand for us.*
Lacks facial expressions? Emoticons really do work... especially in block communication like e-mail. It doesn't take long for someone to get used to emoticons as a "second language" of sorts to real-life facial expressions.
Rushed communication? I disagree completely. E-mail, to me, allows me to take my time carefully crafting a message, allowing me to make sure it's worded right and get rid of ambiguities, prejudices, assumptions and errors. In contrast, talking in person often leads to useless circular banter and social faux-pas due to its instantaneous and rushed nature.
Personal rapport? I tend to find e-mail (and other online/text-based) relationships a lot more robust than personal ones, because emotional responses are buffered by the text -- it's a lot harder to get mad at a page of text than a person, generally. Also, in combination with #1, this helps keep things professional and to the point.
* The article itself basically confirms this by using extant prejudices and other such things as examples of how miscommunications occur -- these are things that we have to work to eliminate, not treat as givens and create solutions around!
There's only ever been one GNU system. The GNU system can run on different kernels, because before Linux there really wasn't a single definitive GNU kernel (otherwise Linux may never have come to be). The GNU system by itself is an OS without a kernel -- technically to be a complete, bootable OS it needs a kernel -- so before Linux the developers ran GNU on top of other systems to get it all working. The Linux kernel was built to run with the GNU system (which had been in development for 6 or 7 years at the time) to create a complete OS which most people simply call 'Linux' also.
Everyone looking for that "certain something" knows where to look.
It's a TLD. You can't really 'look' there for porn. Right now, you don't 'look' for educational institutions on the.edu domain, do you? How would you go about doing the looking?
Just point it to (or run it through) a.xxx address and the filters will work fine.
Extra work with no appreciable benefit (see above).
The industry has better and more important things to worry about.
Like what? Reliability and security ought to be paramount. The IT industry (relating to multipurpose computers, anyway) is currently a joke in that area - compare to virtually any other industry.
I love Shadowrun, but I'd argue that Johnny Mnemonic (the film) is more true to Gibson's vision of the future than Shadowrun. First, I've read the Sprawl and Bridge trilogies and a few other Gibson pieces and I've never seen mention of orks, trolls, or magical Native Americans. Then there's the inescapable fact that Johnny Mnemonic is based on a short story by the same name written by Gibson himself, no matter how far off course the film producers may have strayed.
Also, apparently Fanpro changed the SR dice rules for Fourth Edition. Before you get torqued, check out their website for the rules; as I recall they were actually a pretty ingenious improvement.
No, it doesn't. Call me a prescriptivist, but 'begging the question' means one of the premises used to prove an argument assumes that the argument is true. Click please.
i don't think nintendo did their research for the western market.
Yeah, I'm sure they just forgot about us. D'oh!
Right now nintendo has become the laughing stock of all marketing divisions around the world, except nintendo's.
With the amount of attention the mere name of their upcoming product is generating, I would imagine they've become the envy of marketing divisions around the world.
Would someone please tell me where this keeps coming from?
It comes from the GGP talking about games like Quake, Doom and Warcraft. It comes from hardcore gamers perpetually being 'insulted' by the unseriousness of the name Wii.
Part of the problem with this name is that it requires a blurb explaining what it actually means, a good sign the name isn't self descriptive and has no meaning of its own.
Yeah, because names like Genesis, DreamCast and XBOX describe functionality...
Why does it anger you so much that not everyone thinks it's a dumb name? Stop taking it so seriously, I think that's where the problem lies.
Not at all, I've never bought a Nintendo product firsthand in my life and I'm decidedly anti-corporate. The name Wii just brings a smile to my face set against the misguided seriousness of other system names.
That's about the only part of your post that I agreed with.
If you really believe that Nintendo, the multi-billion-dollar multinational corporation with 117 years of operation under its belt, simply didn't bother to check if people liked the name, you should send them your resume and apply for the position of "Marketing Department" right away.
You're assuming that everyone is a hardcore gamer like you. They're not. I'm not. You're a negligible minority. You're going to buy an XBOX 360 or a PS3 anyway. Quake, Doom and Warcraft are all gamers' games, and not at all the type of casual game Nintendo players play. The rest of us don't care about Ultra-Sooper-Realistic Tactical Combat Simulations, we just want to play Fun Games. The whimsical name of the Wii tells me I'm going to get Fun Games. So if I buy a console this generation, it'll be a Wii.
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I highly recommend Teach Yourself Electronics by Malcolm Plant. I have a Master's degree in electrical engineering and I started with hobby electronics before I learned to ride a bike, and this book is sitting on my desk as I type. ;)
The NES Alarm Clock!
Correct: decades . Therefore it should take decades for nature to fix itself. However, it hasn't taken as much time.
Nonsense. That's like saying a slow tire leak took 3 days to make your tire flat, therefore it should take 3 days for you to fill the tire back up.
This is nothing less than your ilk thinking man is just soooooo powerful and great and wise (scientist have named us Homo Sapien Sapien - the Wise Wise Man afterall). Where we are not.
Sounds like a creationist fnord. Look, we humans have recently fucked a lot of shit up. Volcanoes and their natural buddies you try to blame for stuff have been around forever, but our current environmental problems haven't. Sorry, we can't explain away climate change, mass extinction, ozone depletion and accelerated erosion. It's fact. No one who knows anything about it is currently arguing that. We are the current critical cause. Get over it, and start taking responsibility.
And while you're at it you should educate yourself with the other posts to this story.
Slashdot posts are about 2 rungs above books about Wiccanism on the ladder of educational reading... I'll pass.
Right on. Wish I could mod you up.
Well, since it's just not logical, by your rock-solid rational reasoning obviously firmly based in fact, you must be right.
Not.
It's really simple. Ozone is a gas. Three oxygen molecules. CFCs released into the atmosphere last a very long time due to low reactivity, and work their way up to around the ozone layer. Unfortunately, when they get up there, ultraviolet radiation breaks them down and releases chlorine as a free radical among the ozone molecules in the atomosphere. Chlorine acts as a chemical catalyst in several reactions which take ozone as input and do not output any ozone. Then, the chlorine is free to move on to catalyze the next reaction. This can continue for thousands of ozone molecules. Clearly not all ozone depletion is caused by CFCs, but I don't think there's been any significant debate in a long time that CFCs majorly upset the balance.
As for why the 'hole' is over Antarctica and not Michigan, think about what you're saying. This is a process that has been happening for decades. The atmosphere moves. Don't believe me? Go outside on a windy day. Also, ozone is produced by stratospheric UV radiation, so the lowest concentrations are produced at the poles. The reason the hole is over Antarctica is due to a combination of the low production concentration at the poles and prevailing wind patterns in the stratosphere.
Any questions? Does this seem logical to you now?
You know, you'd think people would err on the side of caution when they don't know shit and the fate of most of Earth's life hangs in the balance.
Each bit can be on or off meaning that for the amount of memory my browser occupies now, there are 2^398163968 different possible states for any similar sized application running.
That's not true at all. First of all, a lot of that memory is the program itself, which isn't going to change, and some of it is probably your OS counting shared library code, which also isn't going to change. Even then, you can't take the variable segments of memory and assume that the application could by its own operation potentially set each bit of memory in any combination of ones and zeroes. There are a lot of memory structures that you can safely say are going to look like such-and-such, greatly reducing your estimate of the number of possible states.
Anyway, testing software doesn't mean taking every possible state into account. That would be ridiculous. Certain things just shouldn't affect one another, so your ones and zeroes in memory situation would basically be a whole whack of "don't-care conditions" (as in truth tables and such) and a relative few significant bits whose values are largely co-dependent. Good programming should compartmentalize the program so that modules affect each other with minimal interaction and thus you really only have to do exhaustive state tests on very small modules.
Agreed. People in businesses seem to think of e-mail as somewhere between an informal phone call and a Post-It note in terms of importance, which is really the only reason they have these problems.
The conclusions shown in the summary are given as causes of the misunderstandings (anecodotal and experimental) in TFA. I disagree somewhat. Though it is in the main logical to conclude that the problem lies in e-mail not properly conveying all the nuances of human verbal communication, I think the problem is more with the people than inherent limitations in the medium -- in other words, we have to mature into e-mail, it doesn't need to expand for us.*
* The article itself basically confirms this by using extant prejudices and other such things as examples of how miscommunications occur -- these are things that we have to work to eliminate, not treat as givens and create solutions around!
There's only ever been one GNU system. The GNU system can run on different kernels, because before Linux there really wasn't a single definitive GNU kernel (otherwise Linux may never have come to be). The GNU system by itself is an OS without a kernel -- technically to be a complete, bootable OS it needs a kernel -- so before Linux the developers ran GNU on top of other systems to get it all working. The Linux kernel was built to run with the GNU system (which had been in development for 6 or 7 years at the time) to create a complete OS which most people simply call 'Linux' also.
Capiche?
Or is it just a kernel that was inserted into an OS that already existed for years prior?
Everyone looking for that "certain something" knows where to look.
It's a TLD. You can't really 'look' there for porn. Right now, you don't 'look' for educational institutions on the .edu domain, do you? How would you go about doing the looking?
Just point it to (or run it through) a .xxx address and the filters will work fine.
Extra work with no appreciable benefit (see above).
Not all sites have age checking. Why would they volunteer to place their site into a less accessible place?
1. Pass a law...
Internet != United States of America
Problem != Solved
If you can come up with a way to effectively force 'red light business' to stay within their designated TLD, I'd be all for it. Really.
Really? And who would decide what exactly constitutes a 'red light business'? Who would do the effective forcing?
The industry has better and more important things to worry about.
Like what? Reliability and security ought to be paramount. The IT industry (relating to multipurpose computers, anyway) is currently a joke in that area - compare to virtually any other industry.
Wizkids owns the rights to publish the tabletop game, FASA Studio (i.e. Microsoft) still owns the rights to publish video games.
I love Shadowrun, but I'd argue that Johnny Mnemonic (the film) is more true to Gibson's vision of the future than Shadowrun. First, I've read the Sprawl and Bridge trilogies and a few other Gibson pieces and I've never seen mention of orks, trolls, or magical Native Americans. Then there's the inescapable fact that Johnny Mnemonic is based on a short story by the same name written by Gibson himself, no matter how far off course the film producers may have strayed.
Also, apparently Fanpro changed the SR dice rules for Fourth Edition. Before you get torqued, check out their website for the rules; as I recall they were actually a pretty ingenious improvement.
That was assonance, not alliteration. Go back 3 squares and lose a turn.
This begs the question...
No, it doesn't. Call me a prescriptivist, but 'begging the question' means one of the premises used to prove an argument assumes that the argument is true. Click please.
i don't think nintendo did their research for the western market.
Yeah, I'm sure they just forgot about us. D'oh!
Right now nintendo has become the laughing stock of all marketing divisions around the world, except nintendo's.
With the amount of attention the mere name of their upcoming product is generating, I would imagine they've become the envy of marketing divisions around the world.
Would someone please tell me where this keeps coming from?
It comes from the GGP talking about games like Quake, Doom and Warcraft. It comes from hardcore gamers perpetually being 'insulted' by the unseriousness of the name Wii.
Part of the problem with this name is that it requires a blurb explaining what it actually means, a good sign the name isn't self descriptive and has no meaning of its own.
Yeah, because names like Genesis, DreamCast and XBOX describe functionality...
Why does it anger you so much that not everyone thinks it's a dumb name? Stop taking it so seriously, I think that's where the problem lies.
Not at all, I've never bought a Nintendo product firsthand in my life and I'm decidedly anti-corporate. The name Wii just brings a smile to my face set against the misguided seriousness of other system names.
Well, I don't know.
That's about the only part of your post that I agreed with.
If you really believe that Nintendo, the multi-billion-dollar multinational corporation with 117 years of operation under its belt, simply didn't bother to check if people liked the name, you should send them your resume and apply for the position of "Marketing Department" right away.
You're assuming that everyone is a hardcore gamer like you. They're not. I'm not. You're a negligible minority. You're going to buy an XBOX 360 or a PS3 anyway. Quake, Doom and Warcraft are all gamers' games, and not at all the type of casual game Nintendo players play. The rest of us don't care about Ultra-Sooper-Realistic Tactical Combat Simulations, we just want to play Fun Games. The whimsical name of the Wii tells me I'm going to get Fun Games. So if I buy a console this generation, it'll be a Wii.
Have you ever actually interacted with real people?